David Winnick

David Winnick (26 June 1933-) was the Labour MP for Croydon South from 31 March 1966 to 18 June 1970 (interrupting Richard Thompson's terms) and the MP for Walsall North from 5 May 1979 to 3 May 2017 (succeeding Robin Hodgson and preceding Eddie Hughes).

Biography
David Winnick was born in Brighton, Sussex, England in 1933 to a Jewish family, and he worked for the Clerical and Administrative Workers Union before becoming a Willesden councillor in 1959 and then on the London Borough of Brent. He was elected to Parliament as the MP for Croydon South in 1966, but he was defeated in 1970; he was re-elected to Parliament as the MP for Walsall North in 1979, serving until 2017. Winnick was on the left of the Labour Party, opposing both the Taliban and Saddam Hussein due to their human rights violations and, as a result, supporting the Iraq War. In 2017, against the national trend, he was defeated for re-election to the House of Commons by Eddie Hughes.